As new book in fine/as new d/w, just storage. Rear of d/w has what looks like sun bleaching but possibly produced like it. Contains a long list of phobias and strange illustrations. 189pps.

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Title: Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0671689061
ISBN 13: 9780671689063
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Weight: 390 grams

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Explores the intricacies and idiocies of the English language, presenting palindromes, phobias, quizzes, riddles, and other challenges of the language

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A journalist, teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and public-radio commentator, Lederer ( Anguished English ; Get Thee to a Punnery ) again adroitly mixes instruction with hilarity by showing that English, though the richest and most widely used of all the world's languages, is "crazy." The text is a dazzling collection of anagrams, alliterations, idioms, illogical spelling rules (bough, ghost, honor, rhyme) and larky oxymora (Chaucer's classic "hateful good," today's "military intelligence," "postal service") . Verses, quizzes and anecdotes accompany Lederer's essays on "the antics of semantics," greatly expanding the pleasure of what he correctly claims is "the ultimate joy ride through our language." Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternates; author tour.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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